Where On Google Earth?

What else could be an appropriate contest at Christmas than the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem?

Now there are several different placemarks in Google Earth pointing at this location and as I have never been there I chose to stick with the location given in Wikipedia at the time I put up the contest.

These wise men and women came from all directions:

• lardarz
• hhgygy
• Captain Greybeard
• Chris Nason
• Milosh, Serbia
• Javier Abadia
• eli
• Paul Franson
• ACG
• David Kozina
• Sarah G
• Elrober
• Steve Jaycocks
• Sanghoon Han
• Gillian
• Skip (Austin, TX)
• Andy McConnell
• Dennis S.
• Alonso

-Hint-

• Andy Geoghegan
• Max_Power

This ends not only 2010 but also these series, where both Chris Nason and hhgygy scored full marks! Congratulations!

Merry Christmas everybody, the location is at the crosshairs.

Click the picture for a larger version.

Pueblo Bonito, or “pretty village” in Spanish, is the largest ruin in Chaco Canyon.

It dates from 910 AD and was the main social and ceremonial center of the Anasazi culture

In 1920, National Geographic Society began a thorough reconstruction of the site.

Right answers from:

• Alex Tischer
• Chris Nason
• hhgygy
• Sarah G
• Milosh, Serbia
• blacbronco
• Javier Abadia
• David Kozina
• Scott J.
• Andy M, USA
• Andy McConnell
• lardarz
• richard
• Megatro
• Paul Franson
• zumsen
• Thomas Egan
• Ernesto Posse

-Hint-

• Steve Jaycocks
• Sanghoon Han
• José Miguel Díaz
• Bill Close
• eli

The site is at the crosshairs. Click the picture for a larger version.

Piton de la Fournaise is one of the most active shield volcanos in the world. It is on French territory, on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean.

There are over 150 registered eruptions in the last few hundred years, the most recent was a small one on 9 and 10 December, which was the third eruption this year.

Google Earth has some incredible detailled pictures of this site. When you zoom in on the centre of the volcano you can see the lava flow. And when you pan an bit to the west, there is a helicopter in flight visible.

Right answers this week from

• David Kozina
• Chris Nason
• José Miguel Díaz
• Paul Franson
• Javier Abadia
• hhgygy
• lardarz
• Andy McConnell

-Hint-

• Milosh, Serbia
• Matt Manolides
• eli
• Willem
• Rahn Hawk
• Spencer
• monsta
• Sarah G.

Brooklands was the worlds first purpose-built motor race circuit.

Famous for its banked high speed track it was in use from 1907 until 1939.

Brooklands also hosts one of the first British airfields and during WW II it was used for military aircraft production.

Nowadays it is an industrial estate and also hosts the Brooklands Museum and the Mercedes-Benz World

Those who won the race:

• hhgygy
• Chris Nason
• Alex Tischer
• LawnBoy
• Paul Franson
• lardarz
• Milosh, Serbia
• Michael Kennedy
• Steve
• Andy M, USA
• Andy McConnell
• blacbronco
• BroderUlf
• zumsen
• Tim Frost
• David Kozina
• Chris Arnott
• ovvk
• Ben
• Max_Power
• Elrober
• Sarah G
• Ivar Bonsaksen
• Steve Jaycocks

-Hint-

• Javier Abadia
• José Miguel Díaz
• Rolando Marín Monge
• Pascal Gilbraith
• Willem
• Matt Manolides